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House & Home Christmas Special 2024

We go off piste in this festive edition, celebrating trees that are a gloriously gaudy mix of irony and nostalgia; table settings that are otherworldly; and natural decorations that are more moss than mistletoe. Our gift ideas include gadgets for nature lovers, visually sumptuous books and elegant house ‘portraits’

Have yourself a (tastefully) tacky Christmas
Is your tree the ‘right’ kind of wrong? ’Tis the season to navigate the forest of good ‘bad taste’
Festive tables should be otherworldly
Now is not the time for nuance: decorate with gilded acorns, wild windswept glasses, and a centrepiece of seaweed and rock
Whimsical and wild festive foliage
From ‘deconstructed displays’ to novel ways with seed heads, bracken and rose hips, there’s a world beyond holly to embrace
Present perfect: 2024’s best garden and interiors books
Discover horticultural treasures hidden behind Venetian walls or amid snow in the Arctic Circle — and step inside the private worlds of titans of art, architecture and design
‘A memory to hold on to’: the new wave of bespoke house portraits
Increasingly given as presents, these commissions tell stories by building a family’s memories, secrets and in-jokes into their foundations
Nine gifts for nature lovers
All they really require is access to green space and time to spend there. But a metal squirrel baffle et al may just enhance their enjoyment

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